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VATICAN CITY — This week, the facade and cupola of St. Peter’s Basilica, normally a brightly lit beacon in the capital’s sky, went dark for a few hours, throwing the Italian news media into high alert.
“Black out and fear for an electrical failure at St. Peter’s,” read one alarmist...

Have you heard about Homecoming: A Film About Pukapuka?"Homecoming" tells the story of climate change through two women who cross the Pacific to return to Pukapuka, the remote coral atoll in the Cook Islands where they grew up....

The documentary "Extinction Soup" premiered on Fusion TV on World Oceans Day, June 8, 2015. It was produced by Stefanie Brendl, Founder and Board President of Shark Allies, and Sidney Sherman, the founder and CEO of Rosa Entertainment, an independent film/television production and...

Dr. Christopher W. Clark, Planet OS’s Chief Marine Scientist, who is a world renown bioacoustician and marine mammal expert, talks about his experience of being a part of Louie Psihoyos‘ eyeopening documentary Racing Extinction, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival at the end of January.
Racing...

The second day of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival found the Arlington Theatre packed with many eager to meet the legendary Cousteau family. Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, and his children Fabien and Celine have dedicated their lives to the education and conservation of...

What fear — whether it’s personal, or one related to the development, financing, production or distribution of your film — did you have to confront and conquer in the making of your movie?“Racing Extinction is like The Avengers but real, but you might want to bring Kleenex.”
Scene from "Racing Extinction"
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"We're not trying to save the whole planet - just 70% of it."
Louie Psihoyos is a former National Geographic photographer turned filmmaker who also runs a small non-profit called The Oceanic Preservation Society. Their motto used to be, "We're not trying to save the whole planet - just...

“You’re looking at a voyage that would take Hōkūleʻa from Hawaiʻi for three years. You’d be sailing for at least 45,000 nautical miles. It would be by far the most dangerous thing we would ever consider doing as a voyaging family. The risks are huge. But on the other side, the...

“You’re looking at a voyage that would take Hōkūleʻa from Hawaiʻi for three years. You’d be sailing for at least 45,000 nautical miles. It would be by far the most dangerous thing we would ever consider doing as a voyaging family. The risks are huge. But on the other side, the...